The Institute for the Study of Western Civilization

Dr. John Agresto

Former Senior Adviser to the Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education and
Scientific Research. Founding member of the board of Trustees, Provost,
Acting Chancellor, and Dean of the Faculty at the American University of
Iraq.

From 1989 to 2000, Agresto served as President of St. John's College in Santa Fe.
In 2002–03 he was Lily Senior Research Fellow at Wabash College. Between August
2003 and June 2004 he served as
a Coalition Provisional Authority Senior Advisor to the Ministry of Higher Education
and Scientific
Research in Baghdad, Iraq. He then worked full-time with The American University
of Iraq – Sulaimani
as its Interim Provost and Chancellor, an experience he drew on to write Mugged By Reality (2007).
In 2008–2009 he was a visiting fellow at Princeton University's James Madison
Program.

Dr. Agresto received an A.B. from Boston College and a Ph.D. in Government from Cornell
University.

Dr. Agresto's interview was held at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX, April 24,
2013.